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strong opinion was expressed by the Bishop, and endorsed by all 

 the Members present, that these remains of the reredos should be 

 once more placed in the Church for preservation, and this the 

 Rector, the Rev. Raymond James, who read some notes on the 

 interesting series of mural paintings formerly -existing in the Church, 

 and some of them still visible, promised that he would endeavour to 

 see done. It is in matters of this kind that the visits of the Society 

 are often productive of real good. The luncheon at the Bell Inn, 

 which followed, was a very crowded and exceedingly warm ex- 

 perience. 



LITTLETON DREW CHURCH, to which the carriages proceeded 

 after lunch, has, with the exception of a good recumbent effigy 

 under an arch in the south wall of the nave, nothing of interest, 

 having been re-built some years ago, but in the churchyard on 

 either side of the path are two stones of a Saxon CROSS SHAFT 

 which have never been described or figured. Attention had been 

 drawn to these by the President — a specialist in such matters — and 

 the time available here was spent in taking rubbings of the sculptured 

 faces, the results of which, with the Bishop's notes thereon, will 

 appear in a future number of the Magazine. These are the only 

 pre-Norman stones at present known of in the county which have 

 not already been illustrated in the Magazine. There is also standing 

 here in the churchyard, near them, a tall rather plain cross, of later 

 date, the whole of the shaft and head of which, consisting of three 

 stones, is said to have been found, as were the pre-Norman stones, 

 built into the walls of the Church. If this was really so, they are 

 in a remarkable, state of preservation. The base on which they 

 stand is, in any case, modern. 



GRITTLETON was the next item on the programme. Here there 

 is little ancient about the CHURCH except the tower, and as there 

 was a funeral going on, the party at once crossed the road to the 

 HOUSE. Unhappily Sir Algernon Neeld himself was even 

 then seriously ill — an illness which soon after proved fatal — 

 and could not receive his visitors, but he most kindly desired 

 that the programme might not be altered, and Capt. Reginald 

 Neeld, R.N., and Mrs. Neeld received them in his stead, 



